Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed to bring a chuckle.  This image, processed by citizen scientist Jason Major, is titled “Jovey McJupiterface.” By rotating the image 180 degrees and orienting it from south up, two white oval storms tu into eyeballs, and the “face” of Jupiter is revealed.  The original image was acquired by JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft on May 19, 2017 at 11:20 a.m. PT (2: 20 p.m. ET) from an altitude of 12,075 miles (19,433 kilometers). JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam      More information about Juno is at: https://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major Last Updated: June 30, 2017 Editor: Tony Greicius Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed to bring a chuckle.  This image, processed by citizen scientist Jason Major, is titled “Jovey McJupiterface.” By rotating the image 180 degrees and orienting it from south up, two white oval storms tu into eyeballs, and Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order to reestablish the National Space Council, alongside members of Congress, NASA and commercial space companies in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Friday, June 30, 2017. Vice President Mike Pence, also in attendance, will chair the council. NASA Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

June 21, 2017 RELEASE 17-058 For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States, and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime on Aug. 21 Viewers around the world will be provided a wealth of images captured before, durin Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

By Renee M. Rottner In the early 1970s, there was a small group of advocates for an infrared space telescope; however, the field of infrared astronomy was only a few years old, and no one had ever built a space-based observatory of the required complexity. Considering the technical, politi Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Kepler space telescope was the first agency mission capable of detecting Earth-size planets using the transi Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

By combining the power of a "natural lens" in space with the capability of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang. Findi Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

June 30, 2017 The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense -- the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase, following NASA’s approval on June 23. Artist concept of NASA’s Double Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب

July 1, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY M17-078 During his visit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vice President Mike Pence will tour the Vehicle Assembly Building, an enormous structure originally built for assembly of Apollo/Satu vehicles, later modified to support Space Shuttle opera Vice President Pence to Visit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...ادامه مطلب